Re: [Bacula-users] Windows client priority?

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 05:38:27PM +0200, Jari Fredriksson wrote:
> On 10.3.2010 11:36, Graham Keeling wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have a user complaining that when the bacula client is backing stuff up on
> > his Windows XP computer, the computer becomes 'unusable' for simple web
> > surfing.
> > 
> > He wonders whether there is a way of setting some kind of low priority on 
> > the
> > bacula file daemon so that the Windows computer can be used whilst the 
> > backup
> > is happening. Something like the linux 'nice' command, perhaps?
> > 
> > 
> 
> If the user has Admin privileges, he/she can set the priority by using
> task manager. In the process list there should be bacula-fd.exe, and it
> allows setting the priority from mouse right click.

Thank you very much for that. I shall tell the user and see how he gets on.
:)

> Bacula probably itself does not allow setting the priority by some
> configurable setting.


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